RE: [PHP] fileinfo returning wrong mime type for Excel files
| From: | Bob McConnell | Date: | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:53:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] fileinfo returning wrong mime type for Excel files | ||
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From: Christoph Boget
>> Have you tried using 'file -i' from the command line: after all you
are looking
>> for a MIME type with your fileinfo...
>> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are
>> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream'
>
> $ file -i excel.xls
> excel.xls: application/msword
>
> The xls file I am using was generated with Excel (of Office 2007) for
> the Mac. So either you have a different magic file (assuming that's
> what the file command uses) than I do or different versions of excel
> contain different information.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. Both may be true.
Bob McConnell